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it only takes a second or two to look into their eyes and decide whether you're home or at just another perfectly decorated house Title: Yesterday I Was the Moon Author: Noor Unnahar Genre: nonfiction, poetry Pages: 160 Publication date: March 27th 2018 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers I got Yesterday I Was the Moon as a birthday gift … Continue reading Book review – Yesterday I Was the Moon (Spoiler Free)

To be a great writer, someone has to get upset with your work. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But it’s true. All famous writers, including J. K. Rowling, Ernest Hemingway, and John Green, have made some reviewers angry before. One well-known author, Rudyard Kipling, had a review say: “...you just don’t know how to use the … Continue reading Healthy reminder:

Oh. You want the truth? It’s a bit messy. It’s the joke your friends make that you laugh off. It’s the smiles and tears that come when someone finally sees the end. It’s the hours upon hours of sitting in one place, hoping the mixture of words turn out better, while knowing you’ll be sitting … Continue reading Oh. You want the truth?

Not everyone in the world speaks one language, so sometimes your characters shouldn’t either. I read more books with mix languages these days. They don’t have descriptions or scenery in another language, but they do have small common phrases. Some characters do this because they’re not from an English speaking country and it’s natural to … Continue reading Using foreign languages in stories

As writers, we daydream so much. This is great for creative stories, because we have the best imagination in the land. From those daydreams, we can create narratives no one’s ever heard of. We can make more than any non-creative person ever thought of before. But you know what comes from those daydreams? A dream … Continue reading Crazy writer’s daydream